Comic 649 - End his suffering

Author Notes:

You increase the natural production of opioid peptides in the scientist's body. You increase them a great deal.

Essentially, you overdose him on painkillers. The plant man's breathing slows...

and then stops.

You wait.

You don't feel him die.

You state this to Dr. Finch and Caius.

"His... his lungs may be vestigial, at this stage. Or or or any of the organs that would normally shut down as too many brain receptors are blocked. If that's the case--"

Caius exhales quietly, and begins to draw his gun. Just as he's readying it, however

you feel the scientist die.

You stop Caius, who nods, and re-holsters his pistol.

Dr. Finch checks the computer again, attempting to find the scientist's name. After a moment or two of scrolling through text, he states simply, "Dr. Deaglan Camp. He's been here for at least one hundred years... I very much doubt his passing away will come as a shock to any family members."

"How he died sure might," Caius replies. "S'gonna be hard to explain all this."

Dr. Finch shuts down the rest of the plant system for the room to prevent further growth.

Comments:

I mean we overdosed him on painkillers, he's not going to feel pain if the thing killing him is too much of the stuff that prevents pain, so yeah painless as possible it would seem, the only thing less painful would be to give him anesthetic but we don't really know how to do that I don't think, Nil was just kinda doing it using its own knowledge

We should thank Caius for being willing to take the shot, even if he didn't have to in the end. Sadly, this is the sort of thing we need to get used to. With great power comes great responsibility, and also great trauma...